Visualization of life sciences data

Walter Teague
Walter Teague|April 18, 2013

Recently, Georges Grinstein, head of the Bioinformatics Program and Co-Director of the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was in our studios hosting a webcast and promoting his upcoming seminar Exploring Data Visualization in Life Sciences Research. I had a chance to sit down [...]

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How percentages can exaggerate

Charles Pirrello
Charles Pirrello|April 9, 2013

As I looked over Monday morning’s news headlines, this story caught my eye: Wow, I thought, the Windows phone system is really catching on. But then I looked at the numbers displayed in news article: It’s true that the Windows numbers have significantly increased, from minuscule to small. But does [...]

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New shapes in JMP: Microtitre plates

Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey|March 27, 2013

The last couple of versions of JMP have extended data visualization in so many ways and made it easier to create these graphics, too. One recent addition to Graph Builder is shapes. JMP is installed with a set of shape files for the geographic boundaries of world countries, states and [...]

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Oh, the places you’ll go! Trip planning in JMP

Bernd Heinen
Bernd Heinen|February 5, 2013

Last summer, we embarked on a family trip to visit some of the great landmarks of the western United States. While planning the trip, I used JMP to keep track of all the places we wanted to see and the travel distances in between. I entered the times that we [...]

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Celebrating statisticians: Florence Nightingale

Laura Lancaster
Laura Lancaster|February 4, 2013

This month we have chosen Florence Nightingale as an influential statistician to celebrate for the International Year of Statistics. While Florence Nightingale is most well-known as the founder of modern nursing and worldwide healthcare reform, she was also a passionate statistician and a pioneer in statistical graphics. Florence Nightingale was born on [...]

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Image analysis of an elephant's foot in JMP

John Ponte
John Ponte|January 24, 2013

This is a picture of the bottom of an elephant’s foot. As you might guess from looking at this picture, this is not a very happy elephant. Elephants kept in captivity often spend their time walking on pavement or other hard surfaces. This is not the substrate they are used [...]

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Have the battleground states always been a battle?

Charles Pirrello
Charles Pirrello|November 15, 2012

For those of you who haven’t tired of election results (can the three of you please gather around this blog post?), I came upon voting data by state from the inception of the Republican Party (1850s) to today.  I thought I’d first take a look and see how each state has [...]

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Election 2012 visualizations

Xan Gregg
Xan Gregg|November 8, 2012

Analytics and visualizations certainly played a prominent role in this year’s presidential election coverage. I’ve been on the lookout for new visualizations, but the flawed red-blue colored national map (aka a choropleth map) still rules. Here’s a typical map (from PBS): What’s the flaw? As a colleague was asked by [...]

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My entry in Perceptual Edge dashboard contest

Xan Gregg
Xan Gregg|October 26, 2012

Last month, I submitted an entry to Stephen Few’s dashboard competition. He supplied data for one teacher’s class and asked for a dashboard that the teacher could use to “rapidly and effectively monitor the performance of her students for the purpose of helping them improve their mathematics skills.” I think [...]

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Forest Plot Add-In for JMP 10

Richard Zink
Richard Zink|October 25, 2012

A forest plot (Figure 1) is a convenient way to graphically display several confidence or credible intervals and is often used in meta-analysis. Here, the x-axis represents the treatment effect between two interventions while the y-axis refers to the individual studies from which the intervals are obtained, or to various consensus intervals derived [...]

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